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Electrochromism, an emerging energy conversion technology, has attracted immense interest due to its various applications including bistable displays, optical filters, variable optical attenuators, optical switches, and ...

The concurrent development of high-performance materials, new device and system architectures, and nanofabrication processes has driven widespread research and development in the field of nanostructures for photon manage...

In this study, ordered mesoporous carbons CMK-3 were prepared by a nanocasting method using SBA-15 silica as template and sucrose as carbon source. The pure CMK-3 was modified with nickel by wet impregnation method and t...

Conversion of energy from photons in sunlight to hydrogen through solar splitting of water is an important technology. The rising significance of producing hydrogen from solar light via water splitting has motivated a su...

Phase-change materials (PCMs) allow for non-volatile resonance tuning of nanophotonic components. Upon switching, they offer a large dielectric contrast between their amorphous and crystalline phases. The recently intro...

The  modified sol-gel synthesis technique was used to created of nanostructured maghemite (γ-Fe2O3). It has been shown that the molar concentration of the original precursors during synthesis affects on the average par...

Due to their novel electronic and optical properties, atomically thin layered two-dimensional (2D) materials are becoming promising to realize novel functional optoelectronic devices including photodetectors, modulators,...

Nickel oxide (NiO) is one of the very few p-type semiconducting oxides, the study of which is gaining increasing attention in recent years due to its potential applicability in many emerging fields of technological resea...

Abstract Despite the extensive use of synthetic and semi-synthetic lipids in nanostructured lipid carrier (NLC) systems, the utilization of Shorea spp. (Illipe butter or tengkawang fat), an indigenous natural solid lipid...

A simple and fast capillary electrophoresis method has been developed to determine the amount of piroxicam loaded in a drug delivery system based on nanostructured lipid carriers (NLC). The entrapment efficiency of the n...

What makes three dimensional semiconductor quantum nanostructures so attractive is the possibility to tune their electronic properties by careful design of their size and composition. These parameters set the confinement...

In this paper, the size- and shape-dependent spectral characteristics of plasmonic nanostructures based on the Thue-Morse (ThMo) sequence are investigated in theory and experiment. We designed, fabricated, and characteri...

We describe a rapid and simple method to create Ag nanostructures by using direct mechanical patterning of ionic Ag ink coating under gentle pressure, then thermal annealing to reduce the ionic Ag ink to a metallic Ag la...

A new comprehensive theory for the field emission from the nanostructured semiconducting SiC was built with allowance for specially worked out analytical model of the field enhancement coefficient for the case of compara...

Regulation of hot spots exhibits excellent potential in many applications including nanolasers, energy harvesting, sensing, and subwavelength imaging. Here, hat-shaped hierarchical nanostructures with different space cur...

Metallic nanostructures have received great attention due to their ability to generate surface plasmon resonances, which are collective oscillations of conduction electrons of a material excited by an electromagnetic wav...

Photoactive hybrid nanostructures composed of metal oxides and plasmonic metals are able to perform the conversion of radiant (solar) energy into electrical or chemical energy. However, their use in large-scale practical...

This study proposes and demonstrates a novel label-free DNA biosensor using high quality optical microcavity functionalized by 3D DNA nanostructure probes. To achieve ultra-low limit DNA biosensing, optical sensing inter...

Mesoporous silica films were used as host for metal-based (Me = Fe, Co, Ni) nanoparticles via wet impregnation at pH = 5. A hydrogen ion beam was used to reduce the metallic oxide and hydroxides, previously detected by X...

For the barrier-well-barrier model of nanostructured thermoelectric material, based on Gaussian, Poschl-Teller potentials and rectangular barriers and well, thermoelectric characteristics were calculated. For quantum bar...

A comparative study of Raman spectra excited by laser radiation λL = 632.8 nm and 488 nm of natural crystals of 2H-MoS2 and nanocrystallites MoS2 (C) containing 0.5 and 1.0 wt.% Carbon additives. A detailed numerical an...

Lead tin telluride solid solutions are excellent candidates for the p-type conduction legs of the thermoelectric generator modules. The investigation of their microstructure properties is an important issue, that can eff...

Photocurrent-induced harmonics appear in gases and solids due to tunnel ionization of electrons in strong fields and subsequent acceleration. In contrast to three-step harmonic emission, no return to the parent ions is n...